Re: Virtual Storage Manager - LDA.

2023-03-04 Thread Massimo Biancucci
Thanks to everybody for the feedback. As I said before, the problem is that using PLI verbs program sometimes runs out of memory. At every FREE I flag the block with a timestamp and, at dump time, lots of blocks logically freed are physically in the dump. So, in theory I've free blocks to reuse (a

Re: Virtual Storage Manager - LDA.

2023-03-04 Thread Peter Relson
Updates to the LDA are done synchronously with respect to the request. Fields such as LDALOAL, LDAHIAL, LDAELOAL, LDAEHIAL might be of interest depending on what you're doing (subpool and whether the virtual is above or below 16M, in particular). I don't recall, but those might reflect allocatio

Re: One more REXX Question

2023-03-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 4 Mar 2023, at 01:54, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Good idea, since IEBCOPY can SELECT a pattern and/or a list of members > and will perform the operation in a single CALL. LMCOPY does not allow > a list of members. Is there an enqueue issue doing that? I'd assume that the LM services

zOS 3.1 - zosmf

2023-03-04 Thread Peter
Hi I know it's early to ask but just trying my best or I have no missed . Any idea if zOS 3.1 can be installed without using zosmf ? Just using the previous serverpac method ? Regards Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: zOS 3.1 - zosmf

2023-03-04 Thread Mark Jacobs
I'm 99.99+% sure the answer is no. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com --- Original Message --- On Saturday, March 4th, 2023 at 9:33 AM, Peter wrote: > Hi >

Re: One more REXX Question

2023-03-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 14:25:25 +, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: >On Sat, 4 Mar 2023, at 01:54, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> Good idea, since IEBCOPY can SELECT a pattern and/or a list of members >> and will perform the operation in a single CALL. LMCOPY does not allow >> a list of members. > >Is there an e

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-04 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342570694_Coupling_Facility_Configuration_Options_-_Updated_2020 CF is not counted on SCRT, shown on RMF reports. Won't cost you on z/OS, may on some vendors. Thin CFs go to enabled wait when work is completed, restart when interrupt says there is work. E

Re: zOS 3.1 - zosmf

2023-03-04 Thread Michael Babcock
Correct, No. On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 10:08 AM Mark Jacobs < 0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I'm 99.99+% sure the answer is no. > > Mark Jacobs > > Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. > > GPG Public Key - > https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&sear

Common standard for number formatting equiv. to mainframe facilities?

2023-03-04 Thread Rupert Reynolds
To explain, I'm writing new PC code. I want the equivalent of EDMK in (something like) snprintf() format strings to print numbers with optional floating currency symbol and spaces/commas between thousands. (not forgetting n,nn,nn,nnn.nn style used in at least one country). As far as I can see, snp

Re: Virtual Storage Manager - LDA.

2023-03-04 Thread Rob Scott
If you are z/OS 2.5, you can use the "L" action on the "JM" (Job Memory) screen in SDSF (JM action available on DA, AS or AD panels). This will show you each block if memory for a specific subpool+key combination in any address space (assuming you have SAF authority to the SDSF resource that pr

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-04 Thread Laurence Chiu
Thanks for the input. On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 7:41 AM Mike Schwab wrote: > > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342570694_Coupling_Facility_Configuration_Options_-_Updated_2020 > I am familiar with that document and even provided a copy to our outsourcer to read but clearly they hadn't T

Re: zOS 3.1 - zosmf

2023-03-04 Thread Kurt J. Quackenbush
> I know it's early to ask but just trying my best or I have no missed . Any > idea if zOS 3.1 can be installed without using zosmf ? Just using the > previous serverpac method ? No. The CustomPac Installation Dialog version of IBM's ServerPac is no longer available. z/OS 3.1 will be availabl

Re: how to determine if new DB2 ERLY code is in memory

2023-03-04 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
-DIS GROUP will perhaps give you what you need: - 04.02.55 -DBCG DIS GROUP - 04.02.55 STC02098 DSN7100I -DBCG DSN7GCMD - *** BEGIN DISPLAY OF GROUP() CATALOG LEVEL(V12R1M500) - CURRENT FUNCTION LEVEL(V12R1M500) - HIGHEST ACTIVATED FUNCTION LE

Re: zOS 3.1 - zosmf

2023-03-04 Thread Peter
Thanks Kurt CBPDO option is a good alternative. As we are a shop which predominantly uses Software ag product On Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 1:56 AM Kurt J. Quackenbush wrote: > > I know it's early to ask but just trying my best or I have no missed . > Any idea if zOS 3.1 can be installed without using z

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-04 Thread Mike Schwab
To avoid impacting other systems, I would drop your LPAR weights by a total of 6%, trim your LPAR memory to reuse for the ICFs, then create your two ICF partitions with 3% of 1 CPU and the reclaimed memory.. On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 2:55 PM Laurence Chiu wrote: > > Thanks for the input. > > > On S